Python Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 16 15
Rank change year-on-year -39 -1 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 183 377 390
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.82% 8.56% 11.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.12% 29.02% 25.64%
Number of salaries quoted 87 158 236
10th Percentile £40,756 £39,700 £37,815
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,911 £48,140
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +4.17% -3.36%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £89,375
South East median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 588 1,299 1,521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.48% 29.50% 43.31%
Number of salaries quoted 376 731 1,037
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,965 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £88,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £56,509 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.67% -1.72% +0.32%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Python job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -39 88 £47,520 -32.11% 192
Buckinghamshire -7 53 £58,250 +5.91% 52
Oxfordshire -8 42 £65,000 +20.78% 54
Python
South East

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.73%) CMS
2 2 (1.09%) Confluence
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.55%) Appian
Applications
1 8 (4.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.83%) MadCap Flare
3 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.55%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 62 (33.88%) AWS
2 47 (25.68%) Azure
3 39 (21.31%) GCP
4 26 (14.21%) Amazon EC2
5 25 (13.66%) Serverless
6 23 (12.57%) Power Platform
7 21 (11.48%) Amazon EKS
8 20 (10.93%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (7.10%) GitHub
10 11 (6.01%) Snowflake
11 7 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (3.83%) Google Analytics
11 7 (3.83%) Google Docs
12 6 (3.28%) Amazon S3
13 5 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (2.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
15 3 (1.64%) Amazon SageMaker
15 3 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.56%) DNS
2 11 (6.01%) Firewall
3 4 (2.19%) Broadband
3 4 (2.19%) DHCP
3 4 (2.19%) LAN
3 4 (2.19%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.19%) WAN
3 4 (2.19%) Wireless
4 3 (1.64%) HTTP
4 3 (1.64%) InfiniBand
4 3 (1.64%) Internet
4 3 (1.64%) VPN
5 2 (1.09%) 5G
5 2 (1.09%) FTP
5 2 (1.09%) SMTP
5 2 (1.09%) SSH
6 1 (0.55%) MIMO
6 1 (0.55%) Network Security
6 1 (0.55%) NGN
6 1 (0.55%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (18.58%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (14.75%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (14.75%) Relational Database
3 24 (13.11%) BigQuery
4 21 (11.48%) Power BI
5 20 (10.93%) RDBMS
6 16 (8.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (7.10%) Metadata
8 11 (6.01%) Data Lake
9 7 (3.83%) Tableau
10 6 (3.28%) SQL Server
11 5 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (2.73%) NoSQL
12 4 (2.19%) Qlik Sense
13 3 (1.64%) MySQL
14 2 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (1.09%) Looker
14 2 (1.09%) MongoDB
14 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (15.30%) Jenkins
2 20 (10.93%) JMeter
2 20 (10.93%) JUnit
2 20 (10.93%) Mockito
3 15 (8.20%) Git
4 9 (4.92%) JIRA
5 5 (2.73%) Selenium
6 4 (2.19%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.64%) Burp Suite
7 3 (1.64%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.64%) GitLab
7 3 (1.64%) Metasploit
7 3 (1.64%) MLflow
7 3 (1.64%) Postman
7 3 (1.64%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.09%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.55%) Appium
9 1 (0.55%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.55%) MSBuild
General
1 50 (27.32%) Social Skills
2 31 (16.94%) Law
3 28 (15.30%) Marketing
4 20 (10.93%) Public Sector
5 16 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (7.10%) Finance
7 10 (5.46%) Retail
8 9 (4.92%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.83%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.73%) Tech for Good
11 4 (2.19%) Legal
11 4 (2.19%) Retail Finance
12 3 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.09%) Aerospace
13 2 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.09%) Multimedia
13 2 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.55%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (16.39%) Developer
2 27 (14.75%) Senior
3 24 (13.11%) Architect
4 21 (11.48%) Java Developer
5 20 (10.93%) Cloud Architect
5 20 (10.93%) GCP Architect
5 20 (10.93%) Platform Architect
6 19 (10.38%) Lead
7 16 (8.74%) Full-Stack Developer
8 15 (8.20%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 14 (7.65%) Software Engineer
10 13 (7.10%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 9 (4.92%) Analyst
12 7 (3.83%) Author
12 7 (3.83%) Automation Engineer
12 7 (3.83%) Technical Author
13 6 (3.28%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 6 (3.28%) Platform Engineer
14 5 (2.73%) Ruby Engineer
15 4 (2.19%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (17.49%) HTML
2 26 (14.21%) REST
3 21 (11.48%) Spring
3 21 (11.48%) Spring Boot
4 20 (10.93%) ActiveMQ
4 20 (10.93%) Apache Camel
4 20 (10.93%) Hibernate
4 20 (10.93%) jQuery
4 20 (10.93%) Web Services
4 20 (10.93%) WireMock
5 19 (10.38%) JSON
6 18 (9.84%) XML
7 9 (4.92%) React
8 7 (3.83%) .NET
9 5 (2.73%) Ruby on Rails
10 4 (2.19%) FastAPI
10 4 (2.19%) pytest
10 4 (2.19%) SOAP
11 3 (1.64%) Node.js
11 3 (1.64%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.11%) Cloud Native
2 21 (11.48%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.73%) Algorithms
3 5 (2.73%) IoT
3 5 (2.73%) SCADA
4 4 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.19%) Industry 4.0
4 4 (2.19%) Learning Management System
4 4 (2.19%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 4 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.64%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.09%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.09%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.09%) Life Science
6 2 (1.09%) Replication
7 1 (0.55%) Animation
7 1 (0.55%) FPGA
7 1 (0.55%) LIMS
7 1 (0.55%) Robotics
7 1 (0.55%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.66%) Linux
2 10 (5.46%) Windows
3 9 (4.92%) Unix
4 3 (1.64%) Kali Linux
5 2 (1.09%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.09%) VMS
6 1 (0.55%) Android
6 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (30.60%) Analytics
2 49 (26.78%) Agile
3 38 (20.77%) Business Intelligence
4 34 (18.58%) CI/CD
4 34 (18.58%) Roadmaps
5 30 (16.39%) Mentoring
5 30 (16.39%) Strategic Roadmap
6 29 (15.85%) Data Engineering
6 29 (15.85%) TDD
7 28 (15.30%) Architectural Design
8 27 (14.75%) Cloud Security
8 27 (14.75%) Data Science
9 25 (13.66%) SDLC
10 24 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (13.11%) ETL
10 24 (13.11%) Microservices
11 23 (12.57%) Computer Science
12 22 (12.02%) Machine Learning
12 22 (12.02%) Performance Optimisation
12 22 (12.02%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 78 (42.62%) SQL
2 60 (32.79%) Java
3 46 (25.14%) JavaScript
4 25 (13.66%) Go
5 21 (11.48%) Shell Script
6 20 (10.93%) Bash
7 18 (9.84%) C++
7 18 (9.84%) T-SQL
8 16 (8.74%) C#
8 16 (8.74%) PowerShell
9 15 (8.20%) C
10 14 (7.65%) Ruby
11 13 (7.10%) PHP
12 12 (6.56%) MATLAB
12 12 (6.56%) TypeScript
13 11 (6.01%) R
14 10 (5.46%) Rust
15 9 (4.92%) Dart
16 6 (3.28%) Perl
17 4 (2.19%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 44 (24.04%) Degree
2 27 (14.75%) Security Cleared
3 13 (7.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (5.46%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.37%) Master's Degree
6 6 (3.28%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.28%) PhD
7 4 (2.19%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.19%) MCSE
7 4 (2.19%) RHCE
8 3 (1.64%) LPIC
8 3 (1.64%) OSCP
9 2 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.55%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.55%) GPEN
10 1 (0.55%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.84%) QA
2 15 (8.20%) Data Quality
3 11 (6.01%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.19%) GDPR
5 3 (1.64%) NIST
6 1 (0.55%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.55%) GxP
6 1 (0.55%) HIPAA
System Software
1 35 (19.13%) Docker
2 4 (2.19%) vCloud
3 3 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.64%) GPFS
3 3 (1.64%) Lustre
3 3 (1.64%) NFS
4 2 (1.09%) DFS Replication
5 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (28.96%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.93%) Kibana
3 15 (8.20%) Ansible
4 14 (7.65%) Terraform
5 4 (2.19%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (2.19%) Rundeck
6 3 (1.64%) Nmap
7 2 (1.09%) Grafana
7 2 (1.09%) Kubeflow
7 2 (1.09%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.55%) Argo
8 1 (0.55%) PingFederate
8 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.55%) SCCM
8 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (16.94%) Google
2 20 (10.93%) Dynatrace
2 20 (10.93%) Splunk
3 5 (2.73%) Allen-Bradley
3 5 (2.73%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.73%) Siemens
3 5 (2.73%) VMware
4 4 (2.19%) Aruba
4 4 (2.19%) Cisco
4 4 (2.19%) Databricks
4 4 (2.19%) Fortinet
4 4 (2.19%) Mellanox
4 4 (2.19%) NVIDIA
4 4 (2.19%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.09%) Alteryx
5 2 (1.09%) HubSpot
5 2 (1.09%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.09%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.09%) Talend
5 2 (1.09%) Zoho